LOS ANGELES: Schools scramble to find questionable meat - (Los Angeles Times)
February 3, 2008 – 5:24 pmSchool district officials across the Southland were cited as trying to identify all meat that had come from a Chino-based slaughterhouse accused of distributing ground beef from at-risk cattle.
This is not the first recall to affect California schools — tainted strawberries and spinach have also caused scares in recent years. Officials were cited as saying that potentially problematic ground beef is much harder to identify and eliminate because it goes through multiple processors before reaching the schools, and meat from different suppliers may be mixed up in the process.
Joanne Tucker, a food services marketing coordinator for the San Diego Unified School District, the second largest in the state, was quoted as saying, “We’re in contact with our suppliers, and they’re in contact with their suppliers. It’s a huge chain of activity.”
The California Department of Education on Thursday urged all schools in the state to temporarily strike from the menu any […]
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